EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

EDIT:

Well I looked around and found this christmas special, ended up winning this welder, $182.50 normally they are alot more as you can see by his other sales

https://i20.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/78/32/5472_1.JPG

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Once this thing comes in, I'll be going out and renting out a bottle to use for Argon, then the practice welding begins, hopefully by spring I will get good enough to make myself a nice manifold, charge piping and exhaust, and offcourse a cart for the welder and bottle.

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

i dont know, i have a smiley and have made a log header with it, and its still holding today, i believe mycrx makes top mounts with the smiley too.

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

Yeah I wanna get a Smiley, but I dont know where to find a decent one for a decent price, my plans for this spring are:

Manifold, Roll bar and misc crap here and there if I need to. Besides, I think its time to start learning how to weld.

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

So what would be a better welder?

A:http://cgi.ebay.com/40-A-PLASMA-CUTT...QQcmdZViewItem

OR

B:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll..._promot_widget

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

oxymoron

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

ive had my smiley tig/plasma combo for about 4 months now and its still sitting in the box 8)

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

The two linked appear to be the same welder, but with the cheaper of the two also have a 40A plasma.

Later
Randy

Re: Looking for good Smiley Tig/Arc/Plasma
 

How much did you end up paying?

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

------- A, just won this on Egay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll..._promot_widget

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

Buy the bottle. 92 or bigger

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

To rent the bottle is I think a yearly fee, cheap too, and to refill well it depends on how much Argon in the area costs and what size the bottle is, I still have to research this stuff, How much would you say these cost say I did have to buy one, also 92 what? gallon, Litre? I want something small that I can take in to the house to avoid theft.

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

Now you're going to make me manifolds for cheap. ;)

Congrats

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

Martin, You've seen our bottle sizes, They are M Size. For argon, I get the bottle free and pay for fills. But that because I know my provider well. Normally the bottle goes for 50.00/year rental, about 200-250 to buy, and 50-60.00 to fill them.

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

Cool, thanks Josh, I'll most likely save up and buy one then.

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

Sure, you pay for materials and argon and I'll practice, cant promise the welds will turn out as nice as some peoples, but yeah I'm gonna start laying some beads over the winter so I can get good enough by spring to make myself a manifold.

I want something like this since my ---- got stolen out of our shed (locked shed) along with my wastegate cuz it was attached to the mani, the only 2 things I didnt part out, also stolen was a bunch of my dads Dodge Caravan parts. Glad I kept the Supra turbo in the basement.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...is_83/51_1.jpg

Re: EDIT: Scored a Smiley Tig/Arc on Egay, think its a good deal? PIC w/link.
 

I bought that same welder too... called it the christmas special.. Dont know how it's going to be, but I'm almost ready to start welding. Just need the argon regulator, grab some tungstens, filler rods and make my girlfriend buy me a decent bench grinder for christmas. So that means, I gotta wait till the 25th to start playing... sucks I know! But I've just purchased myself an 80cf bottle a few weeks back and filling it costs me roughly $42 according to a welding shop in my area.